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Central America is an important region for most coffee buyers, and especially for Bird Rock and PT’s. Both companies have spent the better part of the last 10 years searching for great coffee in this region.

Take a moment with me to contemplate the incredible amount of work it took to get from rich soil in a country thousands of miles away to the ceramic vessel you have before you. This is the story of Mama Cata.

La Palma y El Tucan is experimenting with everything from Scott Laboratory varietals to Gesha, and they are definitely ahead of the curve. If there is an example of coffee’s future, it’s right here.

I’ve been traveling to Panama for nearly a decade now. It’s one of my favorite trips each year. The producers here are very educated, up to date on the latest farming and processing techniques, agronomy and the science of coffee. So I took it as one of my many goals of the trip to learn as much as possible from these producers during the short